I note that many people are looking for this Aztek on the web! It's a nice baby, but I must confess that, IMHO, nothing matches a metal airbrush. Here are some reasons:

- It's easier to clean the external part of the aibrush. I like my airbrush to be super clean and unfortunately, the more I use the Aztek, the less it is easy to clean the body.

- There are lots and lots of parts in plastic inside. If like me, you've had paint coming up the airbrush, forget the Aztek. There are 3 groups in the airbrush and even though the unmounting is easy, remounting it is not fun! Moreover, some parts are mainly made in plastic and might break.

- Remounting the Aztek is tough. Sincerely, the body is clippable, but it might someday break.

- The nozzles: It's great to have everything in a nozzle: the sting, the nozzle and the springs. But quite quickly, you'll notice that the sting and the spring get stuck with paint easily.

- Cleaning some parts of the airbrush is quite tedious, like the mouth of the airbrush where the nozzle is screwed. It's black in there, you don't really know if there's still paint or not.

Well, it really breaks my heart, sincerely, because I invested money in it. The work with an Aztek is great, I don't deny it. You can do nice things, but this also asks for a lot of cleaning work and the fear to mount it not correctly, to do something wrong. Moreover, I've had a lot of paint leaking through the body of the airbrush and had to use some Teflon to fix the problem... So, I'm buying a "GOOD" one, a Harder & Steenbeck 2 in 1. I'll write about it!

The nozzles are easy to use, but as I paint using acrylics mostly, they tend to get obstructed. So you must be careful to clean them often during the work or to create an overflow of paint to keep the nozzle free from paint.

- The resin tends to get quickly dirty and the paint is hard to clean.

- The nozzles are not easy to clean either. The hole remains clean, but the object "nozzle" in plastic keeps some paint stains.

Of course I didn't buy the airbrush cleaner, which I should, but for a package saying that the airbrush is easy to clean, I'm not really sure. Moreover, don't think you can dismantle your airbrsuh to clean the inside. You'd lose your warrantee.